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he has always valued charisma over actual skill or knowledge. This point is shown in a flashback in which Willy asks his oldest ...

Willy Loman as Failed Father Figure in Millers "Death of a Salesman" Research Compiled for The Paper Store, Enterprises Inc...

any true vision or drive. He was, in many ways, nothing but a limited man in the position of a salesman. He could not grow with th...

who has always studied hard and done what is right in order to get ahead. He has gone to college and is a successful lawyer. In es...

first time has begun to take a look at what his years of toil have produced. The comment, then, on the American...

own social responsibility. In a way, this sense of responsibility rubbed off on Biff to the extent that he attempted to gain his ...

content of his disturbing dreams to Jocasta, her response was, What should a man fear? Its all chance, / chance rules our lives. ...

position to that of management, or even to that of an incredibly successful salesman/employee. His character was weak, and his int...

is the assistant to an assistant. Hap lacks even the smallest spark of introspection or self-analysis, but rather is the embodimen...

in his critical assessment of Where Do We Go From Here, "If you stand with the poor, if you experience their homes and their house...

wife Linda is a very supportive, almost too supportive, wife who is always there for Willy. In many ways she may well be protectin...

of our concern. If this story simply told of Oedipus as a king who is found guilty of murdering his father and...

been so completely dependent on the perception of others. His father left his family when Willy was quite young. Consequently, he ...

resembles any level of success. If he were wise he would be happy he made a living, had a loving wife, a home, and two good sons. ...

for he is having an affair and in this we see him denying he is aging, and denying he is not the success he thinks he is. In essen...

city is in turmoil. The next several lines have a messenger enter and inquire as to Oedipus home and whereabouts. The Chorus info...

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...

more and more about Willys life, than it is not some innate tragic flaw in his character which has led to his misfortune, but a co...

takes in their own world. Even children who generally rebel against their parents will ultimately come to a point where they come ...

they alter the way in which Miller originally set up these elements. The Stage and Setting and Directions In the first product...

what he believes to be truth. He tells her, "Maybe I come into the world backwards, I dont know. But you born with two strikes on ...

truly found happiness in his small level of success. It is simply his nature to have dreamed big and ignorantly, never having poss...

his infant son, Oedipus, die from exposure on a mountainside. The baby Oedipus was subsequently found and raised by the rulers of ...

view. Wily Lomans life is riddled with failures, including the failure towards his family when Wily Loman has an affair, his work...

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

is doing is supporting him and encouraging his dreams, although they are false. Because of this sort of set-up we are immediatel...

truth about who killed his wifes husband is being uncovered. He shows himself again as noble by insisting that justice be done and...

between/among society, family and self. She forces her readers to view and view again tendencies of conflict toward self and soci...

his sons the skills and awareness to become the men they could have become. But can that be blamed on a man who did not have the...